The Fast and Furious: ATI Radeon X1900 XTX Review. Page 34

ATI Technologies’ highly-anticipated Radeon X1800-series proved to be a high-performance lineup, however, ATI failed to grab the crown of the indisputable leader from Nvidia Corp. with the new family and the latter’s GeForce 7800 GTX 512, which was never available in mass quantities, attracted a lot of attention to Nvidia’s products. Today ATI attempts to fight back its leadership with the Radeon X1900 XTX graphics card, which offers a promise to be the fastest consumer board in the world. Find out whether the Radeon X1900 XTX delivers on its promise in this review that includes 24 gaming benchmarks.

Final Fantasy XI Official Benchmark 3

Final Fantasy XI Official Benchmark 3 has become out-dated and is not informative anymore when it comes to top-end graphics cards. They all deliver roughly the same performance here, even though the GeForce 7800 family is somewhat faster than the Radeon X1800/X1800. There are no complex pixel shaders here and no dynamic shadows, so the Radeon X1900 XTX can’t profit much by its additional pixel shader processors or other improvements.